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Author : Arthur W. Stigile
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Food Inflation written by Arthur W. Stigile and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr.Rabah Arezki
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1455221066
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Food Prices and Political Instability written by Mr.Rabah Arezki and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a significant deterioration of democratic institutions and a significant increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots, and civil conflict. In the High Income Countries variations in the international food prices have no significant effects on democratic institutions and measures of intra-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in international food prices on Low Income Countries' social and political stability.
Author : Sara Bazoobandi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783940924308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Food Security written by Sara Bazoobandi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international food system is increasingly at risk. Increasing demand, limited and diminishing resources and rising volatility are putting new pressures on the agriculture sector globally. One of the growing critical threats to global stability and security is the inadequacy of food resources. This threat, exacerbated by global population growth, is illustrated by shifts in consumption patterns toward protein-rich diets and the growth of multinational food retail, which bring about a greater reliance on food imports. This book compares the food security policies of selected countries in Asia and the Middle East, and reviews the outcomes of policy applications in a broader context. Themes discussed include: -Shifts in regional and international foreign policy, such as new alliances between countries with rich agricultural resources and wealthier importing states -Creation of food security policy competition across regions -Foreign investments and investment risks for farmland investments -Social implications, such as potential unrest -Environmental sustainability of food security programs, such as the depletion of water resources -Impact of food security programs on trade policies and fiscal policies, such as import taxes and subsidies
Author : Joel Solkoff
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Food written by Joel Solkoff and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of agriculture in this country and of the Department of Agriculture from 1862 to Reagan.
Author : Naomi Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351706179
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions written by Naomi Hossain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes. The half decade of 2007–2012 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including protests and riots. Detailed case studies are included here from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The case studies illustrate that political cultures and ways of organizing around food share much across geography and history, indicating common characteristics of the popular politics of provisions under capitalism. However, all politics are ultimately local, and it is demonstrated how the historic fallout of a subsistence crisis depends ultimately on how the actors and institutions articulate, negotiate and reassert their specific claims within the peculiarities of each policy. A key conclusion of the book is that the politics of provisions remain essential to the right to food and that they involve unruliness. In other words, food riots work. The book explains how and why they continue to do so even in the globalized food system of the 21st century. Food riots signal a state unable to meet a principal condition of its social contract, and create powerful pressure to address that most fundamental of failings. .
Author : Robert Paarlberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199745420
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Food Politics written by Robert Paarlberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, and food companies are under the microscope. Meanwhile, agricultural success in Asia has spurred income growth and dietary enrichment, but agricultural failure in Africa has left one-third of all citizens undernourished - and the international markets that link these diverse regions together are subject to sudden disruption. Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® carefully examines and explains the most important issues on today's global food landscape, including international food prices, famines, chronic hunger, the Malthusian race between food production and population growth, international food aid, "green revolution" farming, obesity, farm subsidies and trade, agriculture and the environment, agribusiness, supermarkets, food safety, fast food, slow food, organic food, local food, and genetically engineered food. Politics in each of these areas has become polarized over the past decade by conflicting claims and accusations from advocates on all sides. Paarlberg's book maps this contested terrain, challenging myths and critiquing more than a few of today's fashionable beliefs about farming and food. For those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed and also challenged, this is the book to read. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Role of Food Prices in Inflation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Warnock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000124347
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Hunger written by John W. Warnock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. This important and provocative book explains the persistence of hunger, poverty, and the lack of balanced development in many countries and the central role of agriculture in economic development. Most theories of agricultural development are based on the experiences of western Europe and the United States while the two models for successful "late development" have been Japan and the Soviet Union. This book surveys the evolution of agriculture under colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and concludes that this long period distorted the development prospects for these areas and retarded the production of food. Under strong state capitalist governments, a few underdeveloped countries have broken the colonial patterns of development. However, other post-revolutionary societies are having far less success because of economic blockades and outside military intervention. While the primary focus of the book is on the short-run problems of inequality, the author examines the long-run ecological and resource constraints to a sustainable food system and raising the standard of living in the underdeveloped world.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Inflation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Food inflation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Inflation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Subir Gokarn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Food Inflation written by Subir Gokarn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0198718578
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability written by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2015 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize.
Author : Andrea Freeman
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250871050
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Ruin Their Crops on the Ground written by Andrea Freeman and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term “food oppression,” moves from colonization to slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food culture, to the commodities supplied to Native reservations, to milk as a symbol of white supremacy. She traces the long-standing alliance between the government and food industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities, and she shows how these practices continue to this day, through the marketing of unhealthy goods that target marginalized communities, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and premature death. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground is a groundbreaking addition to the history and politics of food. It will permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates.
Author : Peter Bernholz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784717630
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Monetary Regimes and Inflation written by Peter Bernholz and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the characteristics of inflations and comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day, this book provides an in depth discussion of the subject. It analyses the high and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of
Author : Randy Schnepf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481071215
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Consumers and Food Price Inflation written by Randy Schnepf and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record Midwest heat in June and July (2012) sparked the worst U.S. drought since 1956, causing damage to major field crops. This situation has contributed to record U.S. prices for corn and soybeans in both cash and futures markets in 2012, and has fanned the fears of food price inflation reminiscent of 2008. The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation associated with commodity market shifts raised concerns and generated many questions about farm and food price movements by Members of Congress and their constituents. However, historical evidence suggests that retail prices for processed food products are driven more by consumer demand (strongly linked to general economic conditions), than by price changes in raw commodity markets, although this linkage varies with the degree of raw commodity content in the retail product. This report focuses instead on the nature and measurement of retail food price inflation and its relationship to consumers. During the 1991 to 2006 period, U.S. food prices were fairly stable—annual food price inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food (excluding alcoholic beverages), averaged a relatively low 2.5%. However, several economic factors emerged in late 2005 that began to gradually push market prices higher for both raw agricultural commodities and energy costs, and ultimately retail food prices. U.S. food price inflation increased at a rate of 4% in 2007 and at 5.5% in 2008—the highest since 1990 and well above the general inflation rate of 3.8%. The situation of sharply rising prices came to a sudden halt in late 2008 when the financial crisis hit U.S. markets leading to a severe economic recession. Annual food price inflation dropped to 1.8% in 2009 and 0.8% in 2010, before rising to 3.7% in 2011 driven by improving U.S. and global economic conditions. USDA projects that annual food price inflation will range from 2.5% to 3.5% in 2012 and rise to 3%-4% in 2013. The All-Food CPI has two components—food-at-home and food-away-from-home. The food-at home CPI is most representative of retail food prices and is significantly more volatile than the food-away-from-home index. The food-at-home CPI is projected in a range of 3% to 4% for 2013, compared with a 2.5% to 3.5% annual inflation rate for food-away-from home prices. This difference is partially explained by the larger share of farm products in the final price of retail foods than in food-away-from home. Farm product prices are, in general, substantially more volatile than the other marketing and processing costs that enter into retail or ready-to-eat foods. Many wages and salaries, as well as federal programs (including several domestic food assistance programs), are linked to price inflation through escalation clauses in order to retain consumer purchasing power. For households where income and federal benefits do not keep up with price inflation, declines in purchasing power are real and immediate. However, even for households with escalation clauses, a time lag usually occurs between the time the price inflation is measured and the time when the wage or program benefit is adjusted upward to compensate. The 2008-2009 global economic crisis—which involved higher retail prices and unemployment, income loss, and lower effective household purchasing power—resulted in higher participation rates in the federal food and nutrition programs since then. As a result, USDA's food and nutrition assistance programs have seen a tremendous expansion in use—federal expenditures totaled $103.3 billion in FY2011 and marked the 11th consecutive year in which food and nutrition assistance expenditures exceeded the previous historical record. Since FY2000, expenditures for food and nutrition assistance have more than tripled.
Author : William D. Schanbacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Food written by William D. Schanbacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition. The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty argues that our current global food system constitutes a massive violation of human rights. In this impassioned, well-researched book, William Schanbacher makes the case that the food security model for combating global hunger—driven by the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other organizations—is a failure, too dependent on trade and too reliant on international agribusiness. Instead, the emerging model of food sovereignty—helping local farmers and businesses produce better quality food—is the more effective and responsible approach. Through numerous case studies, the book examines critical issues of global trade and corporate monopolization of the food industry, while examining the emerging social justice movements that seek to make food sovereignty the model for battling hunger.
Author : John K. Walton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470712716
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Free Markets and Food Riots written by John K. Walton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970s Argues that modern austerity protests, like the classical "bread riots" in eighteenth-century Europe are political acts aimed at injustice, but acts that are an integral part of the process of international economic and political restructuring Evaluates how modern food riots are most important for what they reveal about global economic transformation and its social, and political, consequences Provides a general framework (drawing on comparative and historical material) and then trace the cycle of uneven development, debt, neo-liberal reform, and protest in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe Focusses on the role of women in structural adjustment and protest politics and the features of seemingly anomalous cases which qualify the general argument
Author : Henry Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108754007
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Food and Power written by Henry Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between development and democratization remains one of the most compelling topics of research in political science, yet many aspects of authoritarian regime behavior remain unexplained. This book explores how different types of governments take action to shape the course of economic development, focusing on agriculture, a sector that is of crucial importance in the developing world. It explains variation in agricultural and food policy across regime type, who the winners and losers of these policies are, and whether they influence the stability of authoritarian governments. The book pushes us to think differently about the process linking economic development to political change, and to consider growth as an inherently politicized process rather than an exogenous driver of moves towards democracy.
